philosophy of Zeno

  • 1Zeno's paradoxes — Zeno of Elea s arguments against motion precipitated a crisis in Greek thought. They are presented as four arguments in the form of paradoxes : (1) the Racecourse, or dichotomy paradox, (2) Achilles and the Tortoise, (3) the Arrow, and (4) the… …

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  • 2Zeno's — Zeno of Elea …

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  • 4Zeno of Elea's — Zeno of Elea …

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  • 5Zeno's paradox — Zeno s paradoxes …

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  • 6Zeno of Elea — (b. c. 490 BC) The pupil and principal defender of Parmenides, Zeno was called the inventor of dialectic by Aristotle . His one book, of which we possess only fragments, contained many arguments for the unreality of the pluralistic world that we… …

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  • 7Zeno of Citium — (c. 334–262 BC) The founder of Stoicism, Zeno was a Phoenician born on Cyprus, originally a pupil of Crates the Cynic . He turned to Socratic philosophy, and gradually evolved the unified metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics that make up the… …

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  • 8philosophy of the porch — Philosophy of Zeno and the Stoics, Stoical philosophy …

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  • 9Zeno of Elea — (pronEng|ˈziːnoʊ əv ˈɛliə, Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης) (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a pre Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic… …

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  • 10Philosophy — Phi*los o*phy (f[i^]*l[o^]s [ o]*f[y^]), n.; pl. {Philosophies} (f[i^]*l[o^]s [ o]*f[i^]z). [OE. philosophie, F. philosophie, L. philosophia, from Gr. filosofi a. See {Philosopher}.] 1. Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom;… …

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